Readit NewsMany years ago I tried very hard to go all-in on XML. I loved the idea of serving XML files that contain the data and an XSLT file that defined the HTML templates that would be applied to that XML structure. I still love that idea. But the actual lived experience of developing that way was a nightmare and I gave up.
"Developers keep making this bad choice over and over" is a statement worthy of deeper examination. Why? There's usually a valid reason for it. In this instance JSON + JS framework of the month is simply much easier to work with.
"Choice" is a big word here. It would imply "we've weighted the alternatives, the pros and cons, we've tested and measured different strategies and implementations and we came out with this conclusion: [...]." You know, like science and engineering.
While oftentimes what happens is is "oh, this thing seems to be working. And it looks easy. Great! Moving on.."
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Of course this whole "it will make your more productive" marketing s** is absurd! How can we know? Living on the Moon will make you 27% happier! How do you know that? Has anyone done it in the past? Is there data to back that up? How would you measure happiness? How do we measure productivity, for that matter? That one is still a mystery. But it doesn't matter that we don't know how to, we'll just make it 2x better. That's absurd!
I remember from the days when watching TV. There were these preposterous commercials saying "23% more efficient than other toothpastes" or "33% less dandruff than a regular shampoo" or shit like that. How do you know what products do I use? How do you measure that? What skin type? No. It is just better. Trust us.
I mean, the financial backing in this sector is staggering. We know that already. It's a fact. There are also numbers. Billions if not trillions of them. What does Joe The Developer think all this kind of money goes to? Some of them, and not a small part, goes into marketing. Unless Joe still believes in the "build it and they will come" fake motto. Whomever has a stake in this will back it up, marketing it like crazy. Assume victory even in defeat as the old guy says. I was laughing hard one day when I saw Ilya Sutskever, laptop in hand, strolling the parks for a green meadow to work, develop ground-breaking ideas to save humanity! That's just marketing.
Liked your post. I don't think it matters (that much) that your native language is not English. We don't want to sound all the same by using AI to fix our grammar (ok, maybe this one, yes) or the awkward twists of sentences. Sometimes AI fixes them too good, leaving little room for some poetry into it.
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One big issue I haven't seen addressed in these types of critiques: equating business with humanity.
To elaborate: if a CEO or Happy Worker Joe uses AI to write his Excel Sheets and Typist Jane codes their yet another website in less than two hours without coding knowledge (I know! It's amazing!), does that mean we're loosing our sense of self, or whatever?
Well, if it does, equating human with business has already done that a long time ago. Why complaining now? Only because AI is accelerating it?
If it doesn't, there are plenty of other areas outside work when one can actually be human.
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"People who log workouts are 2x more likely to stick to their routine and make gains, No social feeds, no distractions, just results. $1.99/month vs $9.99 competitors."
For me it would be a no-go, just from the 2x (unfounded?!) affirmation and how this is cheaper that (all?!) of the competitors. Do people actually like this kind of motivationals, so to speak?
Concrats! :)